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Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha Tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Upper Devonian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, upper Famennian), with phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic considerations Sébastien Olive, Yann Leroy, Edward Daeschler, Jason Downs, S. Ladevèze, Gaël Clément To cite this version: Sébastien Olive, Yann Leroy, Edward Daeschler, Jason Downs, S. Ladevèze, et al.. Tristi- chopterids (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Upper Devonian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, upper Famennian), with phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic considerations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020, 40 (1), pp.e1768105. 10.1080/02724634.2020.1768105. hal-03099746 HAL Id: hal-03099746 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03099746 Submitted on 6 Jan 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: For Review Only Tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Late Devonian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, late Famennian), with phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic considerations Journal: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Manuscript ID Draft Manuscript Type: Article Date Submitted by the n/a Author: Complete List of Authors: Olive, Sébastien; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Paleontology Leroy, Yann; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Paleontology Daeschler, Edward; Academy of Natural Sciences, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology Downs, Jason; Delaware Valley University, Biology; Academy of Natural Sciences, Vertebrate Biology Clément, Gaël; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Histoire de la Terre - UMR 5143 du CNRS; Key Words: tristichopterid, Strud, Famennian, Langlieria, Eusthenodon, Belgium Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Page 1 of 51 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: For Review Only 1 2 3 Tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Late Devonian tetrapod-bearing 4 5 6 locality of Strud (Belgium, late Famennian), with phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic 7 8 considerations 9 10 11 12 1,2,* 1,3,4 2 13 SEBASTIEN OLIVE, YANN LEROY, EDWARD B. DAESCHLER, JASON P. 14 15 DOWNS,2,5 and GAËL CLEMENT,3 16 17 18 19 1OD Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, 20 21 22 1000 Brussels, Belgium, [email protected]; 23 24 2Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 25 26 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, USA, [email protected]; 27 28 3 29 Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris, UMR CR2P 7207, MNHN/CNRS/SU, CP 38, 30 31 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, [email protected], 32 33 [email protected]; 34 35 4 36 Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Géosciences, CNRS UMR 6118, Université de Rennes 1, 263, 37 38 avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes cedex, France; 39 40 5Department of Biology, Delaware Valley University, 700 East Butler Avenue, Doylestown, 41 42 Pennsylvania 18901, U.S.A., [email protected]. 43 44 45 46 47 * Corresponding author 48 49 50 51 52 53 RH: OLIVE ET AL.—TRISTICHOPTERIDS FROM BELGIUM 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 1 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: For Review Only Page 2 of 51 1 2 3 ABSTRACT—We describe new material of the tristichopterids cf. Langlieria socqueti and 4 5 6 cf. Eusthenodon wangsjoi and other unassignable tetrapodomorph remains from the late 7 8 Famennian locality of Strud, Belgium. Because of recent improvements in our tristichopterid 9 10 knowledge, a new phylogenetic analysis is presented in addition to a paleobiogeographic 11 12 analysis using the Bayesian Binary MCMC statistical method. A clade formed by (Langlieria 13 14 15 socqueti ((Edenopteron keithcrooki + Hyneria lindae) (Heddleichthys dalgleisiensis 16 17 (Cabonnichthys burnsi (Mandageria fairfaxi + Eusthenodon wangsjoi))))) represents the 18 19 most highly-nested tristichopterids and the biogeographic analysis supports a Western 20 21 22 European origin for it. The biogeographic analysis additionally proposes several 23 24 tristichopterid dispersal events between Euramerica and Gondwana from the Givetian to 25 26 Famennian, providing a more complex scenario than the one proposed by the Great Devonian 27 28 29 Interchange. 30 31 32 33 INTRODUCTION 34 35 36 37 38 Tristichopteridae is a clade of elongate, aquatic sarcopterygians with an extratemporal 39 40 bone located between opercular and lateral extrascapular bones (Ahlberg and Johanson, 41 42 1997; Johanson and Ahlberg, 1997; Snitting, 2008a). Scales are devoid of cosmine, rounded 43 44 45 and thin with a small median boss on the internal surface. The caudal fin is trifurcate and 46 47 diamond-shaped in derived forms (Cloutier and Ahlberg, 1996). 48 49 Tristichopterids are known from the Middle Devonian (latest Givetian; Egerton, 1861; 50 51 52 Young et al., 1992; Swartz, 2012) through the Upper Devonian (Famennian; Jarvik, 1952; 53 54 Clément, 2002; Clément et al., 2009). Their body sizes ranged from 30 centimeters to several 55 56 meters in length. These lobe-finned predatory vertebrates are quite common in the Devonian 57 58 59 vertebrate assemblages of the world with about twenty described species, but only 60 2 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Page 3 of 51 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: For Review Only 1 2 3 Eusthenodon wangsjoi has a cosmopolitan distribution (Laurussia and Gondwana; Ahlberg et 4 5 6 al., 2001; Clément, 2002; Clément and Boisvert, 2006; Clément et al., 2009). Unassignable 7 8 tristichopterid remains are known from Morocco (Lehman, 1977; Lelièvre and Janvier, 1986; 9 10 Lelièvre et al., 1993), from Colombia (Janvier and Maisey, 2010; Olive et al., in review) and 11 12 probably from Iran (Davesne et al., 2015). 13 14 15 Several studies have been done on tristichopterids from Belgium (Lohest, 1888; 16 17 Cloutier and Candilier, 1995; Clément, 2002; Clément et al., 2009; Olive et al., 2015a). 18 19 Eusthenodon wangsjoi and Langlieria socqueti were described from Durnal, Namur Province 20 21 22 (Clément, 2002; Clément et al., 2009); cf. Langlieria from Dison and Modave, Liège 23 24 Province (Clément et al., 2009); and unassignable tristichopterid scales from Becco, Liège 25 26 Province (Olive et al., 2015a). Tristichopterid remains have also been reported from the 27 28 29 locality of Strud, Namur Province (Clément et al., 2009; Denayer et al., 2016:table 1); and 30 31 Evieux, Liège Province (Clément et al., 2009). 32 33 We report here on new tristichopterid material from the tetrapod-bearing locality of 34 35 Strud. We also provide a new phylogenetic analysis that was prompted by recent 36 37 38 improvements in our knowledge of tristichopterid diversity (Swartz, 2012; Schultze and 39 40 Reed, 2012; Young et al., 2013; Borgen and Nakrem, 2016; Daeschler and Downs, 2018; 41 42 Downs et al., 2018). We use our resulting cladogram as the basis for a study of the 43 44 45 paleobiogeographic history of Tristichopteridae. 46 47 48 49 GEOLOGICAL SETTING 50 51 52 53 54 During the late Famennian, Belgium was located along the southeastern margin of 55 56 Euramerica (London-Brabant Peninsula; Ziegler, 1990). In Wallonia (southern Belgium), 57 58 Devonian outcrops are present in the Dinant Synclinorium (allochtonous), Vesdre Area, 59 60 3 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: For Review Only Page 4 of 51 1 2 3 Theux Tectonic Window, Brabant Parautochton, and Haine-Sambre-Meuse Overturned 4 5 6 Thrust Sheets (HSM OTS; Fig. 1). These Variscan structures form the Namur-Dinant Basin, 7 8 which developed during Devonian and Carboniferous times (Thorez et al., 2006). Famennian 9 10 outcrops from Belgium show a regressive trend from shales formed in an open marine 11 12 environment (Famenne Group, early Famennian) to fluvio-lagunal siltstones, sandstones, and 13 14 15 dolomites (Evieux Formation, lower Famennian) (Thorez and Dreesen, 1986). Late 16 17 Famennian deposits from HSM OTS, Vesdre Area, and Theux Tectonic Window are more 18 19 proximal and the fluvio-lagunal facies are generally better developed than in contemporary 20 21 22 deposits from the Dinant Synclinorium (Thorez et al., 2006). The strata at Strud belong to the 23 24 HSM OTS. Tristichopterid remains were found in beds A, B, D–D’, and E of lithological unit 25 26 7 (Fig. 1). Lithological unit 7 belongs to the late Famennian Evieux Formation. The 27 28 29 sedimentology of this unit corresponds to the filling sequence of a channel in an alluvial plain 30 31 (Denayer et al., 2016). 32 33 34 35 MATERIAL AND METHODS 36 37 38 39 40 Preparation and Imaging 41 42 All specimens were mechanically prepared except for a few specimens that were 43 44 45 virtually prepared by conventional X-ray tomography at the AST-RX (Accès Scientifique à la 46 47 Tomographie à Rayons X) facility of the MNHN. Scanning parameters were as follows: 48 49 voltage = 85 kV, current = 260 µA; for IRSNB P 9918, number of slices = 3000, voxel size = 50 51 52 0.029 mm. IRSNB P 9919 is included in three rock blocks that were scanned independently. 53 54 IRSNB P 9919a, number of slices = 1500, voxel size = 0.098 mm; IRSNB P 9919b, number 55 56 of slices = 2000, voxel size = 0.098 mm; IRSNB P 9919c, number of slices = 1800, voxel 57 58 59 size = 0.116 mm. IRSNB P 9918 and 9919 were virtually reconstructed with MIMICS 60 4 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Page 5 of 51 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: For Review Only 1 2 3 (Materialise’s Interactive Medical Image Control System) 16.0 Software (Materialise Inc.; 4 5 6 proprietary software at the MNHN) at the Atelier 3D, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - 7 8 Paris, MNHN.
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